Authors

Arun Gupta

Arun Gupta is a journalist who has written for the Washington Post, The Nation, The Daily Beast, The Raw Story, The Guardian, and Jacobin. He is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York and author of the upcoming “Bacon as a Weapon of Mass Destruction: A Junk Food-Loving Chef’s Inquiry Into Taste” (The New Press).

ARTICLES BY Arun Gupta

  • Quick Thoughts: Arun Gupta on Portland, US Authoritarianism, and Progressive Social Movements

    Quick Thoughts: Arun Gupta on Portland, US Authoritarianism, and Progressive Social Movements

    In late June 2020 the Trump administration deployed federal troops to Portland, Oregon, claiming it needed to restore order to a city riven by chaos and violence. The deployment in fact led to a sharp increase in violence, overwhelmingly by the federal forces themselves, as well as the use of po..

  • Eyewitness Portland

    Eyewitness Portland

    In Portland, a month-long anti-racism protest has transformed into a mainstream rebellion. More than five thousand people take to the streets some nights to fight Trump’s secret police. They say they are there to protest foremost in support of Black Lives Matter and against racist police violenc..